Manish Mehta is Dell’s Vice President for Social Media and Community. He is responsible for establishing Dell’s strategies, global programs, best practices, policies and measurement of social media across the company. In addition, he oversees the global use and implementation of social community across Dell’s consumer, small and medium, public sector, services and enterprise businesses. In this position, he chairs Dell’s Social Media and Community Leadership Council involving each of Dell’s businesses and departments across the company.

Mr. Mehta was one of the founding members of Dell Online (www.Dell.com) and became responsible for all of Dell.com, one of the pioneering and largest online commerce sites in the world. Dell.com was also an early leader in establishing online support and community forums, back in the late 1990s. His responsibilities included site capability, development and re-architecture, innovation, analytics, content operations and design across every product line and business unit worldwide. Online operations included more than 130 regional sites across Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ), Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and the Americas.

Mr. Mehta has also held various entrepreneurial roles at Dell. He was responsible for Dell's Global eBusiness and CRM strategy across its consumer and business-to-business sectors. He served as an Executive Member of Dell Ventures, Dell's venture capital organization, where he held board member positions with a number of private venture-backed startup companies. He also served as Executive Assistant to the Sr. Vice President of Dell's Product Group as a member of the Product and Technology Strategy team.

Prior to Dell, Mr. Mehta spent several years in both the software industry in Silicon Valley and nuclear industry working at nuclear power facilities in the East Coast. Mr. Mehta holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University.